Implantable tiny ultrasound-on-a-chip can monitor body processes: Study
USA: A team of researchers from Columbia University in New York City have developed a tiny, wireless computer chip that can be implanted into body parts and uses ultrasound for monitoring body temperature, and has the potential to measure more.
According to the study, published in the journal Science Advances, the computer chip which is the size of a dust mite may be the future of monitoring the human body and can be injected into the body to monitor processes in real-time. The implant acts as a probe for real-time temperature sensing, including the monitoring of body temperature and temperature changes resulting from the therapeutic application of ultrasound.
There has been increasing interest in wireless, miniaturized implantable medical devices for in vivo and in situ physiological monitoring.
Chen Shi, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, and colleagues aimed to chips that can be injected into the body with a hypodermic needle and then communicate back out of the body using ultrasound, providing information about body characteristics they measure locally.
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